One of the most important platforms for watching videos today is YouTube. The platform owned by Google offers us all types of video content, as well as the possibility of watching live content. But, it has a large number of elements that can be annoying or distracting. Thanks to the YouTube Simplified extensionnow you will only see the content, without other elements.
We all know YouTube for being the largest video platform in the world. Recently, they have added the short video function in the purest TikTok style. In addition, the platform has been allowing live streaming for a long time, although the platform par excellence for this is Twitch.
The problem with this platform is that it has more and more elements that, we can consider, are intrusive. We see how we have videos on the right that suggest us according to our tastes. Then, we have the typical box of the video with the description and also the comments. But now you can remove all these elements in a very simple way.
This is how I removed all the distractions from YouTube
Google’s video platform offers different options, such as extended and full screen video. The problem is that, except for the latter, the rest of the configurations maintain elements that can be annoying. Sometimes he even adds an advertising box.
If what you are looking for is a clean platform interface, you can get it with a simple extension. What this extension allows us to do is eliminate all the additional elements next to each video. We now have a completely clean interface where we will focus on the video.
Maybe you’re wondering what this extension is, well, it’s YouTube Simplified. The extension, which you can install from here, is designed for Google Chrome (and browsers that are based on the Chromium engine). This installation is as simple as any other browser extension. Furthermore, once we have it installed, we don’t have to do anything else, all YouTube elements will simply disappear, except for the video.
When we start a video with this extension, the related videos, advertising boxes, boxes and comments disappear. In addition, we have a dark background that allows us to simply focus on the video we want. An interesting aspect of the extension is that the video becomes centered on the screen, another interesting aspect of this extension.
This extension can be deactivated whenever we want. We can see in the upper right corner a button that returns us to the normal YouTube interface. If we press it, all the elements that had disappeared will return automatically.
The extension is not invasive at all and does not do anything else, it simply modifies the interface of the platform. It also does not imply an increase in resource consumption, although come on, it is not that Chrome is particularly efficient in this sense. In addition, we must highlight that the application is updated periodically to always offer good performance.
You are probably thinking that the extension has almost no downloads and no comments either. I must say that I have been using this extension for some time and I have not had the slightest problem with it.